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From: dewar@cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
Subject: Re: Dec Ditching Ada?
Date: 1996/09/12
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Date: 1996-09-12T00:00:00+00:00
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iRichard Kenner said

"One of the main advantages of free software is that continued support
for GNAT doesn't depend on whether or not ACT is around in the future.
If ACT goes away, or even if its customers become dissatisfied with
either the price or quality of support, somebody else can come in and
offer maintenance services since the source code is freely available."

And of course this works two ways. Since ACT does not own GNAT, we know
we do not have a captive market for support, as would be the case with
a proprietary product, which encourages us to work hard to provide high
quality support!